Charlie Kirk was murdered, Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air, ICE Agents in masks grabbed children off the street, President Trump publicly demanded his AG prosecute political foes, and anti-trans activist Beth Bourne stripped down to her bathing suit at a school board meeting, all in the midst of a potential existential crisis in the country.
Two housing advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for allegedly unlawfully diverting $75 million in permanent supportive housing funds to advance the Trump administration’s social agenda.
The House of Representatives narrowly passed the “Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025”, which would impose steep mandatory minimum sentences and potential life sentences on asylum seekers, teenagers, and immigrant families attempting to reunite, with critics arguing that it represents an extreme expansion of federal sentencing and would undermine public safety.
The Trump administration has reduced the number of immigration judges by one-sixth, loosened hiring qualifications, and begun installing military lawyers as civil immigration judges, raising concerns about civil rights protections and the integrity of the immigration system.
President Trump’s executive order to end cashless bail has been denounced by criminal justice reform advocates, who argue that it is a direct attack on constitutional protections and will disproportionately harm low-income people of color.
The Trump administration has announced plans to deploy military troops to Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, citing crime emergencies, despite falling crime rates, and has threatened to send troops to other cities, sparking criticism from the ACLU and state governors.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower court order requiring the reinstatement of federal research grants that had been terminated earlier this year due to broad policy directives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Congress passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” which cuts Medicaid and Planned Parenthood funding to fund President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, threatening the health and rights of millions of Americans.
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, seeking records related to the expansion of the SAVE program and the use of personal information to maintain voter lists.
The ACLU has warned that the Trump administration is converting Fort Bliss into one of the nation’s largest immigration detention sites, with capacity for up to 5,000 people, and has condemned the move as a misuse of military resources to facilitate the deportation of immigrants.
Despite President Trump’s claims of a rising crime emergency in Washington, D.C., data from the Council on Criminal Justice and other sources show that crime in the city has steadily declined since 2023, with violent crime hitting a 30-year low in 2024.
Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) has condemned President Trump’s efforts to federalize control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., calling it an authoritarian escalation that threatens public safety and the rule of law.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and faith leaders denounced President Trump’s claim of rising crime rates in Democratic-led cities, citing data that shows violent crime is at a record low in Philadelphia and other cities.
Our Revolution criticized President Trump’s decision to federalize the D.C. police and deploy National Guard troops as a power grab, while the White House defended it as necessary to protect public safety and federal operations.
Attorney Raphael Goldman has raised constitutional concerns about President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals and detain them in El Salvador, arguing that the government cannot impose criminal punishment without due process and congressional authorization.
The Trump administration is using military force to conduct immigration raids in American cities, which is a dangerous erosion of the line between civilian and military authority and threatens the constitutional balance and civil liberties at the heart of American democracy.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding the return of California National Guard members deployed to Los Angeles anti-deportation protests, citing a decline in fentanyl seizures and economic damage to the state.
U.S. Representative John Garamendi condemned Israel’s restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, accusing Israeli leadership of purposefully starving the population and calling for the U.S. to stop providing military support to Israel.
President Trump’s Executive Order targeting unhoused individuals has been met with strong criticism from legal and public health advocates, who argue that it promotes a false and discriminatory narrative, fails to address the root causes of homelessness, and threatens to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions that do not comply with its punitive measures.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for issuing an executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, arguing that it violates the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.